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Cajun breakdown : the emergence of an American-made music /

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'Cajun Breakdown' examines the social and cultural roots of Cajun music's development through 1950. The idiom's synthetic nature suggests an extensive and intensive dialogue with popular culture that extinguishes the myth that Cajuns were an insular folk group astray in the Ameri...

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Main Author: Brasseaux, Ryan A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:American musicspheres.
Subjects:
Cajun music > History and criticism.
Popular music > Social aspects > United States.
Cajuns > History.
Musique cajun > Histoire et critique.
Musique populaire > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Cajuns > Histoire.
MUSIC > Ethnic.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Folk & Traditional.
Cajun music
Cajuns
Popular music > Social aspects
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:'Cajun Breakdown' examines the social and cultural roots of Cajun music's development through 1950. The idiom's synthetic nature suggests an extensive and intensive dialogue with popular culture that extinguishes the myth that Cajuns were an insular folk group astray in the American South.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 317 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-308) and index.
ISBN:9780199711314
0199711313
9780195343069
0195343069
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9781282335479
9786612335471
6612335475
0190451114
9780190451110